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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 229, 22 June 1920, Page 6

~ .BICENTENARY OF ROYAL EX- *?;; CHANGE ASSURANCE. '

"TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING."

With those words the existence of the Royal Exohange Assurance, as such, lit erally began. They stand, a gracious ■salutation, at the head of the deed of indenture given under the Great Seal of Great Britain; by George the First of "Great Britain, and herald -tho birth, as a corporate body, of the Royal Exchange Awirance. They are the inaugural ...words of- a Royal Charter dated and granted June 22, 1720. .ir.The passing of time brings the world this year,-in Christian reckoning, to A.D. 1920—it likewise brings tho corporation to ita second centennial year. The Royal Exchange Assurance will then be 200 years old! A goodly ago. In 1720 there were no railways, nor oninibusea, nor even stage coaches; steamships wero unknown, and war vessels wrjio built of heart oj oak. There were nV telegraphs, no cakles, no telephones, oAi tho general post offico had only just been opened with, a vory elementary sorvice. There wore no canals in Great Britain, and the ro*j» were quite nnsuited to vehioular traffic. Gas as an illumtnant for publio use had not been invented, and in London streets were '•■ltndrained. There wero no house pipes or gutters, and dustmen and scavengers >»cre unknown. Old London Bridge, Sftalt in the time of William Rufus, still spanned the .Thnmes. Mechanicnllyirlvjon machinery was nowhere in use. Tfloro was no suoh thing as income tax; tho calendar still followed the Julian Jsar as in Russia May; and umbrellas ;iad never been seen in England. Brit- ■ lah possessions outsido of Europe consisted of certain lands th tho Americas— including Newfoundland, our oldest colony—and two small company settlements •in Africa-4n all, some 2J million square jnilcs. To-day tho Dominions of' the British Empifo comprise an area of 13 million ■ square miles. It was nearly M -years after 1720 before the foundations •of our Indian Empire were begun, and 70 y*ars hud passed ore the first of the settlements was made. The of tho greator part of our African' dominions is modem history.— ( :Wvh

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